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Workbook in Resilience Assessment -- the Wiki
The Resilience Alliance, an organization promoting the study and support of social and environmental resilience, has converted its Resilience Assessment Workbooks into wiki format. According to the alliance's Allyson Quinlan,
The workbook incorporates key principles underlying resilience thinking and provides a framework for assessing the resilience of social-ecological systems and considering options to set the system on a sustainable trajectory. The workbook builds on research by RA members and others and while it offers neither a recipe for effective management nor a panacea for resource problems, it does provide a foundation for integrated resource management that takes into account cross-scale interactions, alternate regimes, change, and uncertainty.
The workbook, and wiki, cover five main topic areas:
- Resilience of What, to What?
- Assessing Alternate States and Thresholds
- Assessing Cycles of Change
- Adaptability and Transformative Change
- Next Steps: Interventions